RE: [expert] Mandrake boot

[Neal Lippman]

Your problem is that windows always assumes it is the only software in the world, so when you install windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2k) it will overwrite your master boot record with its own boot loader, which doesn't know anything about linux type partitions. That is why it is easier, in general, to install Windows FIRST, then put linux on second.   You need to get lilo or grub (depending on what you are using) back into the MBR. To do so, you are going to need a way to boot a non-windows OS, which basically meets a bootable Linux floppy or CD.   If you created a rescue diskette when you installed MDK, you should boot from that. If not, you might want to download tom's rootboot (search for it in google) which will let you create, under DOS, a fully bootable Linux system on a floppy including all the major utilties for getting things up and running.   One you are booted on a rescue floppy of some sort, you can mount your Linux parition and reinstall lilo or grub. Remeber that if you are using LILO, you need to edit lilo.conf to include sections both for your linux boot (which is likely already there since you were using linux before) and for windows. If you are using grub, you can reinstall grub and then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to create the windows section.     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake boot I installed win98 and Mandrake 7 on my computer,it works fine,but when I reinstalled win98 yesterday,I can not boot into Mandrake any more, any help? have to install Mendrake once more?   thanks, Michael zhao